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Easter flower cookies
Delicate and elegant, these biscuits would make the perfect gift – and they're great for children to make this Easter
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Ready in 25 minutes, plus chilling
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Cooking time 10 minutes
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Prep time 15 minutes
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Makes 12
Ingredients
- 50g unsalted butter
- 30g icing sugar, sifted, plus extra for dusting
- 60g plain flour
- 25g ground almonds
- 1 medium free-range egg, yolk only
For the filling
- 50g unsalted butter
- 100g icing sugar, sifted
- 3 drops pink food colouring
- 3 drops green food colouring
Method
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1
Using an electric hand mixer, beat together the butter and icing sugar until creamy. Fold in the flour and almonds, then beat in the egg yolk. Use a palette knife to bring the dough together, then shape into a ball with your hands. Wrap the dough in clingfilm and chill in the fridge for 20-30 minutes.
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Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/gas mark 4. Line a baking tray with baking parchment. On a work surface dusted with icing sugar, roll out the dough to a thickness of 5mm. Stamp out 24 flower-shaped biscuits using a flower-shaped cutter. Place on the baking tray and bake for 5-10 minutes. Leave to cool.
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3
Beat together the butter and icing sugar. Divide between 2 small bowls and drop a small amount of pink food colouring into one bowl and green colouring into the other. Stir 1½ tsp water into each bowl. Sandwich half the biscuits together with pink icing, and half with green icing. Dust both sides with icing sugar before serving.
